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The Kennedy ancestral home is very close for sure 👌😂

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Always a pleasure to come across an #EcoEngineering info board! Nice work #Ecostructure team 🙌. Looks like your panels are functioning similarly to #LivingSeawalls in Plymouth - fucoid city! 🤎 @anaellelemasson.bsky.social @livingseawalls.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @pippajmoore.bsky.social

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Possibly the most beautiful Sabellaria alveolata 🪱 reefs I have seen in Ireland 🇮🇪 Cullenstown beach, Co. Wexford. Just stunning 🤩. Duncannon - you have some competition! 💪 #Prograding @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

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Whale skull washed up on beach at #Bastardstown, Co. Wexford. 🐋💀🌊. 😮 #IWDG

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Thanks 🙏 Ben Rowson for inviting me to talk about #Limpets at Conchological Society meeting. 🐚🐌🦪Interactive props: bottle of #Shackleton whisky 🥃, #Belleek pottery (limpet design) , copy of The Silver Darlings 📚, breast shells 🤱, fridge magnet 🧲 & shell of largest limpet ever - Scutellastra mexicana

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I can’t comment on each individually… whoa 😧 I love them… we should chat

You’re totally right Helen. I would have loved it. Amazing stuff 🤩. Love the creativity. You must have loved it yourself! 🙌

Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Rescued 100s of acorns from the driveway and threw them into the garden. 🌱 Maybe one or two might take root and grow into a fabulous oak tree someday 🤞🙏. Come on Atlantic Rainforest 🌳

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

So saddened by the passing of the extraordinary Manchán Magán. Your passion for language, folklore & Irish culture reignited ours too: your energy, your generosity, your brilliance were a gift to us all. 🇮🇪 Your legacy will live on in every story told, every word revived. RIP Manchán 🌿💚

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Last chance to apply for this postdoc! deadline 12pm tomorrow.

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Honeycomb worms 🍯🐝🪱thriving at #Streedagh strand #Sligo. Reefs forming refuge for green algae 🌿 from #Limpet grazing 🐚. The stunning Ben Bulben as dramatic backdrop 🤩. @aec13.bsky.social @fplima.bsky.social @ucc.ie @benthicecol.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The honeycomb worm 🍯🐝🪱 (Sabellaria alveolata) doing quite well at #Lisfannon beach on Lough Swilly #Donegal. Competing for space with #Limpets 🐚 & invasive oysters 🦪 #Magallana @npwsireland.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#Limpets of the basalt columns of the #GiantsCauseway. 🪨🐚Always nice to see a spot of #epibiosis - green algae on the shells of Patella ulyssiponensis - we think it’s a form of associational defence books.google.ie/books?hl=en&...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Still time to apply! Deadline tomorrow for postdoc on #NbS in salt marshes with fantastic Jim van Belzen & Tjeerd Bouma. Going to be fun project & team! 🤩 @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social @jngriffy.bsky.social @melaniejbishop.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @aec13.bsky.social @stonelivinglab.bsky.social

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Thank you to Laura Airoldi & team 🇮🇹 for hosting us and for facilitating productive scientific discussion to kick off Project #Blueshores - investigating nature based solutions #NBS to salt marsh erosion. 🌱🌾 Bring it on 💪🙌😀 @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

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Project #Blueshores fieldtrip to the salt marshes 🌱🌾 of the #Venice lagoon. Scoping out sites for hybrid blue-green infrastructure #HBGI trials. @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

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Project Blueshores is go! 🇪🇺 Kick off meeting at Uni Padua marine station, Chioggia 🇮🇹 is a beautiful location for meeting old &new friends ☺️@amandahsiung.bsky.social @benthicecol.bsky.social @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social

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3 more days to apply for great postdoc opportunity on saltmarhses with amazing team NIOZ in the Netherlands @niozsearesearch.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

There is nothing about bioinformatics or geospatial in the job advert I am afraid

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Autumn colours on the rocky shore 🧡🤎💛🍁🍂 #fucoids #seaweed #algae #feamainn

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Great line up at #NanoNagle Place for #CultureNight Cork. UCC’s wonderful Irene Ní Shúilleabháin sharing her love of #birds 🦅 🐦‍⬛🪺 & #birdsong of Lee Fields. Screening of ‘Listen to the Fields’ 🦢🎶 by visual artists Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly. @ucc.ie #biodiversity #spokenword #music #poetry #film

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Postdoc opportunity at University College Cork Ireland 🇮🇪. Interdisciplinary approaches to urban coastlines & multispecies relations. 🚶‍♀️🐚👨‍⚕️🦀👩‍🔬🪸👤🐟 Open to EU & non-EU applicants 🌎 Deadline 3rd Oct. Interviews 9th & 10th Oct. #LivingSeawall #EcoEngineering #Sustainability my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru...

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Come see our new Living Seawalls in #Cobh #Cork! 1st in Ireland 🇮🇪. #Global experiment 🌍 started in #Sydney 🇦🇺. Huge thanks to HEA funding, @uccresearch.bsky.social, #PortOfCork for support & Inland & Coastal Marinas for installation. Looking forward to seeing what marine life colonises 🦀🪸🐚🦐🦞🐟🌊.

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Well done to Franz Bauer for collecting the 2 year dataset on the biodiversity colonising the Living Seawalls in Plymouth. Fucoid algae continues to dominate. 🤎 Many new species moving in..🦀🐌🪸

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

On this day in 1916, Ernest #Shackleton, aboard the Yelcho, rescued his 22 men from Elephant Island in the Antarctic. Did you know that his men were cooking #LIMPETS the moment they realised they were being rescued? Perhaps the greatest survival story of all time! 🦸‍♂️🙌

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Such a privilege to get a sneak preview of the MASSIVE #EcoShoreline at Lantau, Hong Kong. 🇭🇰 Thanks to Prof Kenny Leung, Aecom, CEDD for bringing us on the tour. Scaled up installation. 📏 🐚🦪🌳 #mangrove #hybrid #EcoEngineering @theabradford.bsky.social

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Firth, L.B., Clubley, C., McGrath, A., Renshaw, E., Foggo, A., Wilson, A.D., Gribben, P.E., Flower, A.E., et al. 2023. If you can’t beat them join them: enemy shells as refugia from grazing and competition pressures. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 61: 329-362

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Firth, L.B., 2021. What have limpets ever done for us?: On the past and present provisioning and cultural services of limpets. International Review of Environmental History, 7(2), pp.5-45. press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/pr...

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The role of limpets in biodiversity patterns and bioerosion on coastal infrastructure: Insights from Plymouth Breakwater

Based on some recent papers from our team. Cooper, et al. 2025. The role of limpets in biodiversity patterns and bioerosion on coastal infrastructure: Insights from Plymouth Breakwater. Ecological Engineering, 213, p.107548. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The choice of materials used in coastal infrastructure not only influences colonization by marine life, but it can also influence the extent to which …

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Thank you Kenny Leung & team for the opportunity to showcase the overlooked roles of #Limpets as ecosystem engineers & ecosystem service providers at the 3rd BeCome Meeting @ CityU Hong Kong. So much more than just a #Grazer! Like a #DoubleAgent hiding in plain sight. #Sculptor #Facilitator #Food

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@limpetsovertime.bsky.social and @camille-hennion.bsky.social - slim pickings but I got you both a couple of shells for your collections 😀

Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The humble #limpet holding its own against the more classically “beautiful” cowrie. 😍💪🐚 #Coron, Philippines 🇵🇭. “A marine biologist is never on holidays” (James Bond, 1977).

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Huge thank you to placement student Jimi Boyd from @plymuni.bsky.social for conducting surveys of #sandmartins using wall cracks in River Lee. Cork. 🐦‍⬛🪺🏙️ #urban #ecology. International placements are great for students to broaden knowledge, skills & experience.🇮🇪🇬🇧 @ucc.ie @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

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Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Good idea! My first go at elderflower cordial went well so this is a good shout! Thanks! 🙏

Louise Firth @louisefirth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Im not a jam fan so gin methinks! 👍 or lemonade. My first stab at elderflower cordial was a success in early summer. Loving this country living 🌳🏕️